Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

- Sharon Begley

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

- Sharon Begley

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

- Sharon Begley

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

- Sharon Begley

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

- Sharon Begley

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

- Sharon Begley

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

- Sharon Begley

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

- Sharon Begley

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

- Sharon Begley